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Everyone has their own list of favorite classic titles when it comes to adult film, and almost all of those lists contain the title New Wave Hookers, which I just recently caught on DVD for the very first time. Of course, compared to some of the bigger budget features that now come out of the industry, New Wave Hookers doesn’t come off as impressive as it must have been back in 1985, but it’s still easy to see why it has remained such a popular title over the past 15-plus years.
The film features Jamie Gillis and Jake Baker as a couple of buddies, who are watching pornmore… together and wonder if they could start their own business, prostituting women out to gentlemen callers. Their idea is to train the women into having an intense sexual reaction whenever they listen to “New Wave” music (hence the film’s title) that will get them so horny, they’ll be willing to do anything with the guys they are with. The two guys fall asleep, and we are taken into their dream…where their idea of a “New Wave Hookers” company is a reality.
For all those right-wing fundamentalist groups out there who often portray porn as being degrading to women, New Wave Hookers is probably one of the titles which is the basis for such arguments. None of the women in the movie every have sex forced upon them, but with the brainwashing aspect of the plotline, along with the various degrading remarks that both Gillis and Baker make about their girls (count the times Baker refers to them as “bitches”), its easy to see why someone could misinterpret this film as being one that encourages abuse of the fairer sex. Of course, what director Gregory Dark is really doing is offering up a dark comedy that in fact pokes fun at the history of the industry by presenting all these politically incorrect characters…but upon first glance, it’s easy to see why many could be turned off by the events in New Wave Hookers.
As for those of you who don’t care about such things, and really want to know how the sex holds up, the answer is that, overall, New Wave Hookers is a mixed bag. Gone is the scene with Traci Lords (which this reviewer has never seen), taken out because she was underage at the time of filming. Still in, however, is the great double penetration scene with Ginger Lynn, in which she visits the room of two college “geeks” (played by Tom Byron and Steve Powers) and quickly turns these young boys into men.
Most of the rest of the action is so-so by today’s adult standards, but I did also enjoy the opening sex sequence, where Desiree Lane comes wheeling in on a pair of roller skates to take on Jamie and Steve Powers (who has the easiest dialogue to remember…playing Gillis’ and Baker’s “dog”, and requiring him to only yell “Ring!” everytime there’s a phone call). I wouldn’t be surprised if mainstream director Paul Thomas Anderson got his idea for “Roller Girl” (Heather Graham) in Boogie Nights from this very scene.
New Wave Hookers was one of the earlier classics released by VCA on DVD (back in mid-1999), and thus suffers a bit from the lack of features contained on the disc. There is a slide show, a chapter selection and some other company and title information, but little else. The video quality is not bad, considering this is a shot-on-film title and VCA probably had trouble digging up a good source copy of the original, since no one could have foreseen the advent of DVD at the time of the movie’s original production. So there are some defects in the actual film, but very little graininess in the transfer, proving some care was taken by the studio in providing the best possible reproduction. The audio suffers more than the video, with much of the dialogue sounding a bit muddy and aged. Still, it’s pretty good for an older title.
New Wave Hookers may not be the best title to introduce your significant other to the world of adult film with, but it is an important landmark title in the history of the adult industry, and therefore, worth a spot on any serious collector’s shelf.
| Ginger Lynn |
| Kristara Barrington |
| Gina Carrera |
| Desiree Lane |
| Brooke Fields |
| Tom Byron |
| Peter North |
| Jamie Gillis |
| Jack Baker |
| Steve Powers |
Info:
- Category:
- Movies > Adult
- Case Type:
- DVD
- Release Type:
- Retail
- Language:
- English
- Comments:
- 1 read add
Cover Info:
- Title:
- New Wave Hookers (1985) Retail DVD
- Part:
- Front
- Dimensions:
- 1489 x 1000 px
- Size:
- 392 KB
- Downloads:
- 120 (0 today)
- Uploaded:
- 10/01/08 by LadySnowblood
- Quality Rating:
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- Currently 5/5 Stars.
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